Re: [Refdb-users] MODS + RefDB

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Feb 4, 2004, at 3:33 AM, Justus H. Piater wrote:

> Does anybody out there (Bruce, for instance) have practical experience
> with using MODS (as the "master") in conjunction with RefDB?

Not exactly.

> How do you import MODS data into RefDB? Do you use Chris Putnam's
> bibutils (MODS->RIS), or do you have an XSLT stylesheet (MODS->RISX)?

v3 of Chris' tools currently do a fantastic job of converting from RIS, 
Endnote and BibTeX (though note, I've not actually test the latter, and 
encourage others to) ---> MODS.  So that provides one mechanism for 
exporting MODS content from RefDB, though I've not tried it yet myself.

Once these tools stabilize (and people testing and sending n bug 
reports will help), Chris will implement conversion out of MODS back to 
those non-XML formats.

> If I interpret the list traffic correctly, things are converging
> toward using MODS

Yes, and with more than one project, I might add.

> , and a future version of RefDB will likely be based
> on MODS instead of RIS. Markus, is this correct?

I'm pretty sure that's the plan, but Markus will have to tackle that.  
It would short-term he could somehow use Chris' tools for 
import/export....

Bruce